Carly Sick
Oil on Arches Oil paper

Model showed up to life drawing to so sick, tired, sneezing, coughing, looking like death warmed over. As she hacked away, everyone but me made apologies for her, calling it allergies, a cold, anything but #covid Everyone telling themselves and her lies to protect each other from facing truth.
She had a fever…

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